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Trying to stay safe by "blending in" has a name, and its called security by obscurity. It works until it doesn't, and then it all tend to fall apart like a house made from cards.

Everyone has something to hide, and everyone need the security that the right to privacy provides. If I am the victim of a crime, I do not wish that the lawyer of the criminal has every single detail of my life to dig through and find something to paint doubt in a judge/jury mind. I also do not wish that the criminal has total information about the judge and jury, which they could then use to figure out how to manipulate them to a different decision then the truth. As such, I do not only wish privacy for me, but privacy for every person who could end up as jury, judge, lawyer, victim or accused. Our justice system depend on privacy to protect the human beings involved from being manipulated.




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